Movies like Athena

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Athena (2022)
 6.8
 22K
Athena (2022)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Hours after the tragic death of their youngest brother in unexplained circumstances, three siblings have their lives thrown into chaos.
Style: dramatic, tense, captivating, thrilling, suspense, underground film, hood, psychological thriller, surprise ending, neo noir ...
Plot: gang, gangster, brother, violence, family relations, brutality, destruction, hate, fighting the system, anger, desperation, extremist, mercilessness, near death experience, loss of brother, tragic event, righteous rage, social commentary, life is a bitch, dysfunctional family, brother sister relationship, problem, ghetto, past, underground ...
Time: 2020s
Place: paris france, france
Keyword: gangsters, algerian

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Most similar movies to Athena

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out neo noir, surprise ending, suspense and independent film films with plots about held at gunpoint, murder, violence, deception, blood, death and blood splatter mostly in Action, Thriller and Drama genres. Some movies like Athena: Point Blank (2019), Rogue City (2020), Earth and Blood (2020), The Stronghold (2020), Ambulance (2022). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 5.7
 16K
Point Blank (2019)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A nurse is forced to spring a wounded murder suspect from the hospital when the man’s brother kidnaps his pregnant wife and wants to make a trade.
Style: captivating, bleak, tense, brutal, action thriller ...
Plot: ambulance, corruption, gang, hospital, police, betrayal, police detective, violence, deception, machismo, organized crime, conspiracy ...
Time: 2010s
Place: cincinnati ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.1
 10K
Rogue City (2020)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Caught in the crosshairs of police corruption and Marseille’s warring gangs, a loyal cop must protect his squad by taking matters into his own hands.
Style: suspense, tragic ending, tense, exciting, serious ...
Plot: mafia, french police, police corruption, police detective, italian mafia, police officer killed, police brutality, betrayal, police investigation, police shootout, coworker relationship, fighting crime ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: marseille, bronx new york city, paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Earth and Blood (2020)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A sawmill owner and his teenage daughter become tangled in a deadly feud when a drug dealer stashes stolen cocaine on their remote property.
Style: suspense, serious, suspenseful, emotional, bloody ...
Plot: drug cartel, danger, teenage daughter, murder, chase, death, criminal, revenge, drug, gunfight, father and daughter, gang of outlaws ...
Time: 2020s
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.9
 13K
The Stronghold (2020)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A police brigade working in the dangerous northern neighborhoods of Marseille, where the level of crime is higher than anywhere else in France.
Style: unusual plot structure, tense, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot: police, french police, chase, danger, murder, death, police detective, violence, partners against crime, law enforcement, partner, friends ...
Time: 2010s, year 2012, 21st century
Place: marseille, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Movie in collections
 6.1
 96K
Ambulance (2022)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 136 min.
Story: Decorated veteran Will Sharp, desperate for money to cover his wife's medical bills, asks for help from his adoptive brother Danny. A charismatic career criminal, Danny instead offers him a score: the biggest bank heist in Los Angeles history: ...
Style: suspense, tense, disturbing, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot: criminal, ambulance, hostage, heist gone wrong, hospital, fear, homosexual, mob boss, gunfight, betrayal, police, car chase ...
Time: future, 2020s, 21st century
Place: california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.4
 26K
Black and Blue (2019)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Exposure follows a rookie Detroit African-American female cop who stumbles upon corrupt officers who are murdering a drug dealer, an incident captured by her body cam. They pursue her through the night in an attempt to destroy the footage, but to ...
Style: suspense, tense, hood, bleak, slang ...
Audience: adult
Plot: corrupt cop, ghetto, police, corruption, african american, betrayal, rookie, drug lord, organized crime, danger, police corruption, black ...
Time: 2010s
Place: new orleans, louisiana, detroit
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 3.5
 5K
A Day to Die (2022)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A disgraced parole officer is indebted to a local gang leader and forced to pull off a series of dangerous drug heists within twelve hours in order to pay the $2 million dollars he owes, rescue his kidnapped pregnant wife, and settle a score with ...
Style: captivating, tense, suspense, disturbing, independent film ...
Plot: gang, sniper, commando, organized crime, teamwork, home invasion, problem, needing money, criminal, money problems, ex soldier, swat team ...
Time: 2020s
Place: mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 4.7
 8K
The Doorman (2020)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A former Marine turned doorman at a luxury New York City high-rise must outsmart and battle a group of art thieves and their ruthless leader — while struggling to protect her sister's family. As the thieves become increasingly desperate and ...
Style: captivating, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: female protagonist, heroes, danger, safecracker, ak 47, gang, criminal, fistfight, rescue, combat, fight, rehabilitation ...
Time: 2020s
Place: new york, bucharest, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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 6.2
 21K
Below Zero (2021)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 106 min.
Story: When a prisoner transfer van is attacked, the cop in charge must fight those inside and outside while dealing with a silent foe: the icy temperatures.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, captivating, perverse, disturbing ...
Plot: police, rapist, murder, revenge, ice, sole survivor, confined, prisoner, death, accidental death, all male cast, survival ...
Time: 2020s
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 6.8
 15K
Point Blank (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Samuel Pierret is a nurse who saves the wrong guy – a thief whose henchmen take Samuel's pregnant wife hostage to force him to spring their boss from the hospital. A race through the subways and streets of Paris ensues, and the body count ...
Style: suspenseful, intense, unusual plot structure, suspense, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: survival, hospital, race against time, hostage, on the run, twists and turns, danger, life turned upside down, unlikely partners, confined, wanted, ransom ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Silverton Siege (2022)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Africa
Duration: 100 min.
Story: After a failed sabotage mission, a trio of anti-apartheid freedom fighters ends up in a tense bank hostage situation. Based on a true story.
Style: suspense, tense, suspenseful, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot: criminal, hostage, prison, female warrior, hostage situation, chase, robbery, mission, thief, problem, threat to kill, gang ...
Time: 80s, year 1980
Place: south africa, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 6.3
 77K
Triple 9 (2016)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A gang of criminals and corrupt cops plan the murder of a police officer in order to pull off their biggest heist yet across town.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, tense, stylized, intense ...
Plot: heist, police corruption, murder, bank robbery, dirty cop, corrupt cop, mafia, violence, corruption, betrayal, strip club, gangster ...
Time: year 2015, year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
Place: atlanta georgia, usa, tel aviv israel
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 6.4
 67K
Blood Father (2016)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story: An ex-con reunites with his estranged wayward 16-year old daughter to protect her from drug dealers who are trying to kill her.
Style: suspense, stylized, harsh, road movie, tense ...
Plot: father daughter relationship, teenage girl, ex convict, on the run, revenge, survival, redemption, road trip, alcoholic, race against time, gangster, chase ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s
Place: california, new mexico, santa monica california
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 6.3
 14K
Lost Bullet (2020)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A small time delinquent, turned police mechanic for a go fast task force, is forced to defend his innocence when his mentor is killed by dirty cops.
Style: exciting, captivating, unusual plot structure, tense, neo noir ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: french police, police corruption, car, murder, frame up, police, con artists, car theft, murder witness, car chase, justice, crime scene ...
Time: 2010s, 2020s
Place: france, marseille
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Original Gangstas (1996)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A violent street gang, the Rebels, rule the streets of Gary, Indiana. The Rebels shoot Marvin Bookman, a store-keeper, for giving the police information about a drive-by shooting they committed. Marvin's son, former NFL star John who created ...
Style: hood, cult classic, independent film, serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: blaxploitation, vigilante, urban, female warrior, vigilantism, gang, murder, black, ghetto, vengeance, tough heroes, culture clash ...
Time: year 1996, year 2016, 90s
Place: indiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 5.4
 794
Back in Action (1994)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Two men have different motivations but the same goal when they team up and mount an assault on a powerful drug gang.
Style: erotic, suspense, detective, independent film, neo noir
Plot: organized crime, martial arts, mobster, wrestling, making love, sex scene, green beret, unrequited love, vigilante, buddy cop, gun fu, thug ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 4.8
 8K
The Courier (2019)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: This intense action-thriller unfolds in real time as two embattled souls fight for their lives. Gary Oldman stars as a vicious crime boss out to kill Nick, the lone witness set to testify against him. He hires a mysterious female motorcycle courier ...
Style: suspense, captivating, entertaining, exciting, crime thriller ...
Plot: police, female warrior, one woman army, danger, survival, crime boss, bomb, messenger, gunfight, chase, trap, chases and races ...
Time: 2010s
Place: tower bridge london, washington d.c., empire state building manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city, new york ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 5.3
 2K
Centaur (2022)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Rafa's hooked on the pure, fiery feelings he gets from speed racing, but when his kid's mom gets mixed up with drug dealers, he burns rubber to save her.
Style: disturbing, suspense, tense, captivating, erotic ...
Plot: motorcycle race, organized crime, chase, drug lord, car chase, drug cartel, fight, criminal, drug dealer, criminal underworld, deal, money problems ...
Time: 2020s
Place: spain, marseille, barcelona
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Movie in collections
 5.8
 5K
Xtreme (2021)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Two years after the murder of his son and father, a retired hitman sets in motion a carefully crafted revenge plan against the killer: his own brother.
Style: suspense, tense, captivating, perverse, thrilling ...
Plot: hitman, sword fight, murder, vengeance, revenge, gang, female warrior, criminal gang, criminal, showdown, killer, murderer ...
Time: 2020s
Place: spain, barcelona
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 4.4
 396
Maximum Force (1992)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Three renegade cops team up to take on the corrupt chief of police and a crime lords hatchet-man.
Style: suspense, independent film, exciting, serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: monster, renegade, gangster, police detective, prostitute, chase, undercover, computer cracker, cop, partner, against the odds, working undercover ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 5.2
 6K
Recoil (2011)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A cop turns vigilante after his family is murdered, exacting vengeance on the killers - and then on all criminals who have slipped through the system.
Style: exciting, serious, rough, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vigilante, gang, death of wife, rivalry, vigilantism, murder, gangster, organized crime, violence, anger, good versus evil, revenge ...
Time: 2000s, year 2011, 2010s, year 2009, 21st century
Place: british columbia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 4.8
 12K
The Courier (2019)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: This intense action-thriller unfolds in real time as two embattled souls fight for their lives. Gary Oldman stars as a vicious crime boss out to kill Nick, the lone witness set to testify against him. He hires a mysterious female motorcycle courier ...
Style: suspense, psychotronic, captivating, tense, serious ...
Plot: female warrior, delivery man, one against many, dark heroine, black ops, ex special forces, femme fatale, revenge, one woman army, mystery woman, haunted by the past, attempted murder ...
Time: 2010s
Place: washington d.c., new york, tower bridge london, empire state building manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
The Tax Collector (2020)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: David Cuevas is a family man who works as a gangland tax collector for high ranking Los Angeles gang members. He makes collections across the city with his partner Creeper making sure people pay up or will see retaliation. An old threat returns to ...
Style: ambiguous ending, tense, suspenseful, exciting, bleak ...
Plot: sadism, drug smuggler, tax collector, hitman, family relations, female psychopath, violence, drug dealer, danger, drug, taxes, male objectification ...
Time: 2010s, 2020s
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 7.2
 91K
Harry Brown (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story: An elderly ex-serviceman and widower looks to avenge his best friend's murder by doling out his own form of justice.
Style: tense, suspense, realistic, bleak, serious ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: vigilantism, vengeance, vigilante, murder, revenge, violence, brutality, investigation, gangster, vigilante justice, widower, urban ...
Time: year 2009, y2k, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: england, london, britain, persia, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 4.7
 7K
Black Water (2018)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A deep cover operative awakens to find himself imprisoned on a submarine. With the help of a fellow prisoner and an amateur agent, he must race against the clock to escape the vessel and expose who set him up.
Style: suspense, exciting, serious, captivating, tense ...
Plot: martial arts, submarine, female warrior, violence, murder, danger, brutality, blood, betrayal, dishonesty, espionage, spy ...
Time: future, 2010s, 21st century
Place: pentagon
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 6.4
 60K
Live by Night (2016)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: A story set in the Prohibition Era and centered around a group of individuals and their dealings in the world of organized crime.
Style: neo noir, stylized, period piece, captivating, exciting ...
Audience: teens
Plot: organized crime, prohibition, chase, mafia, revenge, betrayal, criminal, friendship, murder, police, gangster, death ...
Time: 1920s, year 2016, 2010s, 1930s
Place: florida, boston, massachusetts, america, miami ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 5.6
 34K
Sleepless (2017)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Undercover Las Vegas police officer Vincent Downs is caught in a high stakes web of corrupt cops and the mob-controlled casino underground. When a heist goes wrong, a crew of homicidal gangsters kidnaps Downs’ teenage son. In one sleepless night ...
Style: suspense, neo noir, disturbing, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: organized crime, undercover cop, kidnapping, police corruption, tough cop, female warrior, rescue, father son relationship, brutality, race against time, police detective, car chase ...
Time: year 2017
Place: las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 5.2
 880
Street Knight (1993)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A former cop returns to challenge a plot to escalate gang violence in the streets of Los Angeles.
Style: grindhouse, independent film, exciting, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, cannon, vigilantism, kung fu, police detective, teenage life, gang, hostage, gangster, gang warfare, city life, against the odds ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 5.4
 16K
I Am Wrath (2016)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A man is out for justice after a group of corrupt police officers are unable to catch his wife's killer.
Style: tense, exciting, suspense, bleak, neo noir ...
Plot: revenge, murder, police corruption, vengeance, danger, brutality, violence, paranoia, sociopath, gangster, vigilante, vigilantism ...
Place: ohio, columbus ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 5.0
 11K
Proud Mary (2018)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Mary is a hit woman working for an organized crime family in Boston, whose life is completely turned around when she meets a young boy whose path she crosses when a professional hit goes bad.
Style: suspense, tense, captivating, exciting, retro ...
Audience: adult
Plot: female warrior, female assassin, gangster, revenge, female killer, female protagonist, murder, death, one woman army, black, violence, strong female lead ...
Time: 2010s
Place: massachusetts, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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